Re: Need help with resolution
You are right. That SHOULD work, but I had already tried that and it didn't
solve the problem. From what I can see, it seems to be a problem with the
system only seeing 256k of videoram when it has 2 meg. I should normally be
able to toggle between resolutions with Ctrl - Alt - "+", but it is locked into
640x480 because that is all that's available.
On 21-Sep-98 Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 07:46:54PM -0500, Ken Archer wrote:
>> I currently have SuSE 5.2, Red Hat 5.1, Slackware 3.4 and Debian 2.0 on
>> seperate partitions on a 10 gig hd. As you can tell, I am constantly
>> looking
>> for something better. From what I heard, I thought it might be Debian, but
>> I
>> can't even get the resolution set right on it. I have it set a 1024x768 on
>> my
>> other distributions, but using xf86config the same way with Debian, I get
>> 640x480 with a virtual resolution of 800x600. It evidently only sees 256k
>> of
>> videoram when I have 2 meg. What's different about Debian? From what I
>> read
>> on this mailing list, one of its features is easy of installation. Maybe
>> I'm
>> just expecting too much.
>
> Well....
> I hate it when XF86Config doesn't work...so I always make a backup...
> have you thought of getting /etc/XF86Config from either your RedHat or
> slackware system?
>
> it SHOULD work I believe.
>
> -Steve
>
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